What caused the civil war? "It's very simple, and it really does boil down to one word," Taylor said. "The cause of the Civil War was slavery." She said that when trying to understand "why" the ...

Slavery caused the Civil War. More exactly, the economics of slavery caused the Civil War. Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley made news last month when she was asked at a New Hampshire ...

Slavery was the root cause of the Civil War, but Nikki Haley is right that from March 4, 1861 to January 1, 1863, the Civil War was about keeping the Union together.

In this first episode of Kings and Generals’ animated series on the American Civil War, we explore the core causes of the conflict - including slavery, westward expansion, economic tensions, and ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. ... The South wished to take slavery into the western territories, while the North was committed to keeping them open to white labor alone.

Slavery was the central reason for Southern secession and war in 1861. Yet in 2024, two candidates for president, Nikki Haley, who failed to mention slavery as the war’s cause, and Donald Trump ...

Even though Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee shook hands at Appomattox Court House in 1865, it seems that arguments over the Civil War will never end. And no bigger argument about America’s ...

At a campaign event in New Hampshire Wednesday, the former S.C. governor didn't mention slavery as a cause of the Civil War, sparking controversy. Now she's walking back those comments.

Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley did not cite slavery as a cause of the American Civil War on Wednesday night when a town hall attendee asked her what she thought led to the bloody conflict.. The ...

Nikki Haley expands on Civil War comment after she did not cite slavery as a cause for the war. The questioner told Haley it was "astonishing" she gave an answer that did not mention slavery.

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. ... The South wished to take slavery into the western territories, while the North was committed to keeping them open to white labor alone.